USA Poll 8/24

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2003

8/24/2003

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (37)	1,529	1
2	Ohio State (23)	1,477	2
3	Miami (2)	1,471	3
4	Texas	1,306	4
5	Kansas State	1,210	5
6	Auburn (1)	1,160	6
7	Michigan	1,144	7
8	USC	1,090	8
9	Georgia	1,057	9
10	Virginia Tech	959	10
11	Florida State	761	12
12	Pittsburgh	743	11
13	NC State	721	14
14	Maryland	718	13
15	LSU	679	15
16	Tennessee	617	16
17	Virginia	542	17
18	Notre Dame	498	18
19	Washington	456	19
20	Wisconsin	342	20
21	Florida	310	21
22	Purdue	281	22
23	Arizona State	260	23
24	Oklahoma State	160	24
25	Iowa	119	NR

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

More Info

The Coaches' Poll began as a top 20 list in 1950 and was published by United Press International (UPI). In 1990 the poll began listing the top 25 teams.

This poll was published by the UPI until 1991 when USA Today and CNN took it over. ESPN replaced CNN in 1997 as the co-sponsor. After the controversial results in the BCS in 2004, ESPN left and the poll is currently run by USA Today only.

Since the inception of the BCS, the Coaches' Poll must vote the number one team in the BCS poll as number one also. This was supposed to eliminate the possibility of split national titles until the before mentioned 2004 controversy. The winner of the Coaches' Poll is awarded the Waterford Crystal National Championship Coaches' Trophy.